



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Sohenok and Dr. H. D. House. The class then 

 proceeded over the Northern Pacific railroad to 

 Portland, Ore., stopping en route in Idaho to 

 visit the St. Joe National Forest and the Mil- 

 waukee Lumber Company's white pine manufac- 

 tiu-ing- plant at St. Marios. The next stop in 

 the western pilgrimage was at Seattle, where 

 a number of large factories, mills and other 

 plants were studied, among them being those 

 of the Pacific Creosoting Compan.v. Seattle 

 Cedar Luml)er Manufacturing Compan.v. Pacific 

 Coast Pipe Company and the lialcora sawmills. 

 The United States Forest Service's testing sta- 

 tion is located at this place, as is also the For- 

 estry Building, donated to the university after 

 the Seattle fair about three years ago. Opera- 

 tions which proved of great interest were in- 

 spected at the Merrill & Ring Logging Com- 

 pany's plant near Lake Martha, some fifteen 

 miles from Seattle, where logs are handled b.v 

 (he latest and most impi'oved machinery, and 

 where horses are largely dispensed with, steam 

 engines doing the work, A short time was 

 spent at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Com- 

 pany's door, veneer and column factory at Ta- 

 coma, and also the sawmill owned by this com- 

 pany on the slopes of Mt. Tacoma. The west- 

 ern tour of the students will extend to other 

 important lumber regions where various prac- 

 tical problems will be studied. 



Annual Outing Grand Rapids Lumbermen 



The Grand Rapids Lumbermen's .\ssociati':m 

 held its fourth annual outing Saturday, Aug. 31, 

 at Lake Harbor. Mich., six miles south of Mus- 

 kegon on Mona Lake. It was a da,v of pleasure 

 — business was thrown aside to make room for 

 golf, baseball, and various kinds of field sports, 

 among which foot races were a prominent fea- 

 ture. Two special cars over the Muskegon Inter- 

 urban line carried the visitors out in the morn- 

 ing and back in the evening. Many of the lum- 

 bermen were accompanied by their families. The 

 committee on arrangements saw to it that the 

 day was filled with good things from start to 

 finish. The festivities were brought to a close 

 with a dinner at the Lake Harbor hotel, and a 

 poem by Douglas Malloch. 



A Million Dollar Lumber Company 



Anliinuiccnii'ut lias been m.-uli- of the organiza- 

 tinn of the Marshall-Butters Lumber Company, 



a million-dollar corporation, which will operate 

 at L'Anse, Jlich., cutting liar<lwoods and hem- 

 lock. Marshall Butters of I^udingtou is presi- 

 dent, Robert Butters of Ludington secretary- 

 treasurer, Charles Phelps of Grand Rapids vice- 

 president, C. Vf. Gates of Wells. ,Iohn O. Maxey 

 of L'Anse, Charles Liken of Sebewaing and 

 Thomas Tracy of L'Anse, directors. The mill 

 which the company will build is to have a .yearly 

 capacity of from 30,000,0110 to ,50,000,000 feet 

 of lumber and will employ ,500 men. The com- 

 pany will build a railroad to tap its lumber 

 holdings wliich are estimated to contain iJ.'ii';'.- 

 000.000 feet. 



New Issue National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association Rule Books 



Frank V. Fish, secretary-treasurer of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber A.ssociation. Chi- 

 I ago, reports that an order for 25,000 copies of 

 the new rules, showdng the additions made at 

 the convention in June, is now in the hands of 

 the printer and will be ready for distribtition 

 not later than Sept. 15. The work of getting 

 these new rules into the hands of the trade 

 has been unavoidably delayed, but all orders now 

 on file will be filled about the middle of thi.s 

 month and all members will receive ten copi-^s. 

 to which they entitled. 



Death of 'Walter H. Bell 



^^'alter n. Uell. who claimed his home in 

 Chicago, but who for the last quarter of a 

 century has been engaged in exploiting lands 

 in southern Mexican properties, and who from 

 long residence was supposed to be immune from 

 fever, died about a month ago in that country. 



Several years ago he exploited the property 

 that was later taken over by the International 

 Lumber & Development Comi)any of Philadel- 

 phia, in which Markley & Miller figured so prom- 

 inently. This deal invohed 5erious complications 

 with Markley & Miller, which were recited some 

 fivi' or six years ago in H.vrdwood Recobp. 

 \ 

 Tragic End of Daniel Ct. Emery 



Daniel G. Emery, the ekh'st and only sur- 

 viving son of the late George D. K'mery of Bos- 

 ton. Mass., committed suicide at his home at 

 Portage 'Lake, Me., Sept. G, by means of a pi,'«tol 

 shot. The final extinction of the male end of the 

 Kmery family is very tragical. The late George 

 ri. p^iuery died from overwork and worry incident 



to the rreraendous strain involved in his Cen- 

 tral American and South American mahogany 

 and cedar exploitation enterprises, and the se- 

 rious legal complications that arose in connec- 

 tion therewith. The -estate still has a largo claim 

 against the Republic of Nicaragua, ivbich is 

 pending_ in the courts. 



The younger son died shortly after bis lather, 

 a few years ago, of disease contracted in the 

 tropics. The property left Daniel G. Emery 

 b.^ his father was held in trust for him. He was 

 divorced from his first wife, who remarried and 

 with her two children lives in India. Two years 

 ago young Erai ry married a nurse in Boston 

 and went to Maine to reside. His wife, also 

 was a victim of the tragedy, she having been 

 str.angled to death, possibly by Mr. Emery, 



Daniel G. Emery was well known in Chicago, 

 having resided here several years as a represen- 

 tative of his late father in sundry gypsum prop- 

 erties In the 'West. He was a man probably 

 about fifty years old. 



Death of Henry A. Batchelor 



Henry A. Batchelor, who for more than fort.v 

 years was a prominent lumberman of Michigan, 

 died at his liome at Saginaw Aug. 21, 1912. He 

 was born at Port .Huron, where his father car- 

 ried on a lumber business at an early day. He 

 thus grew up in the lumber business and ac- 

 C|uircd a practical knowledge of its various fea- 

 tures. He located at Bay City, Mich., in 1S7" 

 and remained a year in the employ of David 

 Whitney of Detroit, with whom ho subsequently 

 formed a co-partnership in a sawmill at Mel- 

 bourne. That mill was operated until 1.S04 and 

 cut 450,000,000 feet of lumber. The mill burned, 

 and two years later Mr. Batchelor, in connection 

 witli K, G. I'eters of Manistee, Mich., ptu'chased 

 a large body of cypress timber and a sawmill in 

 Florida. This mill was operated at I'anasoft'kee 

 under the title of the Batchelor Cypress Lum- 

 ber Company. In 1!I04 the Wylie & Buell Lum- 

 ber Company, of which Mr. Batchelor was presi- 

 dent, acquired the Ilall mill at Bay City and 

 began operations upon a tract of land contain- 

 ing about 17."i.ooo.000 feet of timbc-r. tributary 

 to the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Con 

 tral railroad. The next year this company sold 

 its interest in the Hall mill and the Batchelor 

 'limber Company took over the sawmill of the 



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